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pparker
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This gives me shivers, being a WWII buff and knowing something of the current economic and political dynamics on the planet. That road shot is so obvious (as are others), but I chuckled at them putting long skirts on the girls. |
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Daemonblue
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Haven't seen 5cm per second...but judging from your comment I can tell which ones are fake (though it was pretty obvious -_-). That said, it seems the Chinese are going for the smoggy look for their cities.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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I'm reading through long discussions; Chinese netizens have been criticizing this title heavily: "how can you teach ethics while cheating?! Shameless." However, there are some Chinese animators (not working on this project) feel sad but not surprising: they want to be creative and produce original series, but the boss wants you to complete a series with shortest time and lowest budget possible or you get fired. Then the boss uses this to procure government funding approved by government officials who don't watch animation. 
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prime_pm
 Posts: 2370 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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I had no idea Tokyo Tower was in China.
It's kinda funny, out of all the available material in Japan, they decided to steal one of the cheaper made animes down there, particularly one made by practically a single guy in his garage (exaggerated for purpose of (poor) humor). It's nice to see how strong Chinese nobility still stands over there. |
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dormcat
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Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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5cm is not She and Her Cat; it was produced with way more manpower. |
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Sakagami Tomoyo
 Posts: 943 Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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If you're going to copy something to save on costs, why not knock off something that was made on the cheap to begin with? |
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pparker
Posts: 1185 Location: Florida |
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I did read that elsewhere, and at least there is still the possibility of a backlash with some modicum of free speech on the net. I feel for the animators over there as well. I'm still hoping the sheer volume of people will overwhelm China's attempts at censoring the entire Internet and gradually force political change from below. That government is just too scary, rhetoric too precisely reminiscent of past evil totalitarian regimes. Since they essentially own the West (or U.S. at least) economically now, no one externally will actually push back at them politically. |
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prime_pm
Posts: 2370 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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I know. I just exaggerated, seeing as how the director was famous for such past work. And, I figure, if you're gonna steal anyway, at least steal something expensive. |
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GATSU
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Well, it's nice to know that the Chinese government will still act to enforce Shinkai's copyright on the material.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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I just read a Chinese net user commented: "they should plagiarize spoiler[School Days] next time; a beautiful and educational campus life anime it is."
You. Win. 
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prime_pm
Posts: 2370 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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Win times ten. That was beautiful. |
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matrixdude
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It such a shame that China does this. They have tons of manpower to do their own anime but resort to stealing. Just goes to show that that China is just too lazy to cultivate their own unique anime and would rather steal successful ones. They rip nearly everything off already, and has one of the, if not the, highest illegal copy amounts in the world.
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icepick314
 Posts: 486 Location: Back in the Good Ol' US of A |
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from China?
not surprising.... but nothing CoMix Wave Inc at Japan can do except point it out....can't sue Chinese government and i doubt CCTV is going to shut down ENTIRE series just because of complaint of ONE company from another country.... |
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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This is getting out of hand. First Bandai/Namco and now this.
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luisedgarf
Posts: 669 Location: Guadalajara, Mexico |
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It's not surprising, just look to Japan, Korea and Vietnam's cultures and you can see how in the East Asian culture plagiarism is very common (Just look the pagodas in first place.) |
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